"A rich group of 15 plundered marble, bronze and pottery antiquities... that were confiscated in the US has been handed over to Greek officials in New York, the Culture Ministry said Monday" including this awesome Archaic helmet from Afrati, Crete:
www.ekathimerini.com/news/1315885...
!["No city-state, no community of peers could have emerged out of that environment. The system was perhaps similar to the collectivized farm in modern authoritarian communist societies. Although some private land must have been outside of palatial control, we can be sure the majority of crops was always in the hands of Mycenean [sic] overlords. Wealth was not widely distributed. Food production was tightly controlled. Social life was highly regimented. These conditions of complexity made the entire system both resistant to needed reform and extremely vulnerable to outside challenge."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdk77335qsalp35m4cc7musv/bafkreihqe4a6xzl2vgnpliouqx6t333g6bpebdiv45ggoecbf4hpbsgu3u)
!["[Bret] Stephens: I’d say the lowest-quality institutions created since the 1990s have names like Columbia and Berkeley — these are essentially factories of Maoist cadres taught by professors whose political views ranged almost exclusively from the left to the far left."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdk77335qsalp35m4cc7musv/bafkreic7ielvi7yqlnnajkfzkv4kjnyqrdyipdwsduda5nbpltuvqv5pku)
